''Janayugom'' is a

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

daily newspaper published in

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, India. It is the official organ of the

State Council of the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

. It is the first newspaper in India using free software. Originally started in 1947 as a weekly magazine from

Quilon Kollam (), also known by its former name Quilon , is an ancient seaport and city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The city i ...

to propagate the news and views of the party, On 1953 November 16 it was converted as a daily newspaper. The first editor was N. Gopinathan Nair (alias Velya Gopi) and the first manager R. Gopinathan Nair (alias Kochu Gopi). M.N. Govindan Nair, a senior figure in the

, supported the conversion of the publication from a weekly to a daily newspaper. By the 1950s, the ''Janayugom'' daily newspaper also was started and by the 70s the ''Janayugom'' family of publications had expanded to include ''Cinerama'', a film weekly, ''Balayugom'', a children's monthly and ''Janayugom Novelpathippu'', a literary magazine. Later, all of these publications stopped one by one and only a monthly magazine from

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remained. In 2007 ''Janayugom'' was rejuvenated, now as a daily news paper. Marxist theoreticians like C. Unniraja have been its chief editors. Its chief editor is

Kanam Rajendran Kanam Rajendran (born 10 November 1950) is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India."Kana ...

and editor is Rajaji Mathew Thomas .

Free/open-source software

In November 2019, the newspaper migrated to

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software. All desktops were moved to Kubuntu

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, all image editing was moved to

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and all desktop publishing was moved to

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. Savings from the use of free software was over 10 million Indian Rupees ($130,000).

Supplements

* Vaarantham * Sahapadi * Sthreeyugom * Yuvakalasahithi

References

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Free/open-source software

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